2022 Forest River Cedar Creek371FL

The Cedar Creek 371FL leaves Forest River's factory at 13,564 lbs dry, with a published GVWR of 16,615 lbs and 3,051 lbs of cargo capacity between the two. Cargo capacity is 18% of the loaded rating, and Forest River's own definition is worth reading before you plan against it: cargo capacity is what remains for fresh water, gear, food, batteries and every dealer-installed accessory. Fresh water alone is 8.3 lb per gallon, so filling this trailer's 69-gallon fresh tank spends 573 lbs of that 3,051 lbs before anything else is loaded.

Dry pin weight is 2,615 lbs, which is 19% of the dry weight. That figure lands on the truck's rear axle and comes straight off its payload rating - not its towing rating, which is the number most often quoted and the wrong one for this decision. Pin weight rises as the trailer is loaded, and a fifth wheel loaded toward its cargo capacity will put substantially more than 2,615 lbs over the bed. Read the payload figure on your own door sticker rather than a brochure maximum for the model.

Tank capacities are 69 gallons fresh, 82 grey and 41 black, 123 gallons of waste capacity against 69 gallons of supply. The ratio is what governs how long the trailer can sit off hookups: waste capacity exceeds fresh, so the fresh tank is the binding constraint and refilling extends the stay. Forest River publishes these three figures per floorplan, and they are the factory's numbers rather than a segment average.

Against the rest of the Cedar Creek roster this is the 9th of 11 floorplans by dry weight, in a line that runs from 11,244 lbs to 14,190 lbs. It sits in the heavier third of the line. Comparing floorplans inside one line is more reliable than comparing across brands, because every figure here comes from the same factory channel on the same day.

A useful way to read the pair of weights is to stop planning against the dry figure. Nobody tows a trailer at 13,564 lbs: that is the weight before water, batteries, propane, bedding, food, tools and anything the dealer bolted on. Load half the published cargo capacity, which is modest for a family trip, and this plan is already near 15,090 lbs on the road. Compare that number against the tow vehicle, not the dry weight, and leave margin on top of it - the published GVWR of 16,615 lbs is a limit rather than a target.

Every number above was read from one factory document: Forest River's own 2022 brochure for this line, and each figure was read back against that document's text before it was published. This is a single-channel record rather than the two-page cross-check this site runs on saved factory web pages, and it is described that way rather than dressed up as more. Dry weight plus cargo capacity also equals the published GVWR exactly, which is the arithmetic check this site runs on every profiled floorplan. Where a figure is missing from this page it is because the brochure does not publish it, not because it was hard to find - and the row says so rather than being quietly dropped.

Forest River publishes no floorplan description for this plan in the channel this page is built from - only the numeric specification block. Rather than describe a layout from the floorplan code, which would be a guess dressed as a fact, this page carries what the factory publishes and says where it stops. 371FL is a Cedar Creek designation and this site does not decode it into a layout claim.

Cedar Creek sits at the heavy end of what a three-quarter-ton truck can carry and most of it is genuinely one-ton territory. Across the ten plans profiled here dry weight runs 11,244 to 14,190 lb and dry pin weight runs 2,110 to 3,176 lb, which is the number that matters most: a fifth-wheel pin load comes off the truck's payload rating rather than its towing rating, and a 3,176 lb pin will exhaust the payload of most trucks before the trailer weight becomes the constraint. Cargo capacity runs 2,811 to 4,971 lb. Every plan carries 69 gallons of fresh water, 82 of grey and 41 of black, so tank capacity is not a differentiator inside this line - the variables are length, 34 ft 7 in to 43 ft 4 in, and how much of the loaded rating the trailer has already spent on itself.

A full 69-gallon fresh tank is about 575 lb of water (water counts as cargo: 49 CFR 571.120 S10.4.2), 19% of the 371FL’s 3,051 lb cargo capacity, leaving 2,476 lb. Across 18 Cedar Creek floorplans the water share runs 12% to 35%, and 9 give up more than this one. Nearest on that share: Cedar Creek 311RL at 18% and Cedar Creek 385RK at 19%. Your own unit’s figure is on the label inside its entry door (49 CFR 571.120 S10.4.3).

Closest sibling: the Cedar Creek 360RL, nearest on the published figures. It differs on 5 of the 8 fields both publish (this plan first): length 41 ft 11 in vs 40 ft 7 in; dry weight 13,564 lb vs 13,134 lb; GVWR 16,615 lb vs 16,525 lb; cargo capacity 3,051 lb vs 3,391 lb; dry hitch weight 2,615 lb vs 2,525 lb. They match on fresh tank, grey tank and black tank.

Either side of it by GVWR: Cedar Creek 360RL is 90 lb lighter (16,525 lb GVWR); Cedar Creek 361RL is 10 lb heavier (16,625 lb GVWR).

All 18 Cedar Creek floorplans: Cedar Creek line hub.

Against the 371FL: the Montana High Country 381TB is 3 lb heavier; the Pinnacle 32RLTS is 15 lb lighter; the Columbus 383RLH is 20 lb heavier.

11 of the 18 fields this catalogue tracks are published for the 371FL. Not published: interior height, sleeps, slide count, axle count, tire specification, refrigerator, air conditioning.

Sourcing rules: methodology.